Heres a question...............how tidy is your home ?

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I heard recently that a friend's stepdaughter worked for a top eventer (who will obviously remain nameless). They have a beautiful property and fantastic facilities, however apparantly their house is a tip.
I know quite a few horsey people who have beautiful yards and you could eat your dinner off the floor, but their house is a right state.
I think I have OCD when it comes to my horse, and wont even let my partner hang up my bridle as he doesn't hang it up straight. HOWEVER, i wouldnt say my house is a tip, but its certainly not tidy. It only gets vacuumed when it has become embarrassing and the dishes pile up a bit sometimes (no dishwasher).
So, how many of you have lovely tidy homes, and how many of you have hay and shavings on the lounge carpet ??
 
Most of my horsey mates houses are really messy and it always shocks me cause their horses and stables are immaculate - my OH is complete OCD so our house is immaculate all the time - in fact it looks like weve been burgled cause we have hardly any stuff!
 
I treat my land better than my garden..........and as for housework, I'm so busy keeping ponies and land immaculate and lookin after my kids that its a kind of losing battle at home!!
 
Hmmmm...well somewhere inthe middle...I am a bit OCD about floors at home and the yard, but theres invariably bedding and forage on the bathroom floor where its fallen out of the bottom of my jeans or dropped off my socks. And there is a selection of 'yard clothes' dumped on the landing cos I wont allow it in the bedrooms.....and a fair proportion of the utility room has been given over to sticking footwear, the cupboard in the kitchen is full of riding/mucking out jackets and fleeces...

My car is usually a sort of mobile field shelter-cum-tack/feedroom though.
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I spend 2 hours every morning going round tidying,hoovering,doing washing not because I am anal when it comes to the house but because with 2 ponies,3 boys and 1 OH my house is a tip again by the time we go to bed
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Like you though I hate my OH mucking out because he doesnt think its important to sweep there beds so that they are nice and square and there pillows(banks) patted into shape
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Thats the point - Cazza525 - i think for most people they have a few kids, a few horses and a busy life the house often come last in their priorities - i bet they are much happier than the housewives with no hobbies who are completely anal about how immacualte their houses are!
 
lol - i use my Oh jeep to tow trailer to shows and he gets so annoyed when i get back if theres any hay/ woodchips / food wrappers / riding boots or any traces of horse left in it !
 
My car is a total mess ! Thinks ... kids, dog, horses, haylage , shavings etc
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My house is actually quite tidy ..... I have a dettol fetish
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I like boys to keep their rooms tidy, My kitchen is clean even with the dog in it, My bathroom is clean and my sitting room is lived in but is tidy, All the floors get washed every other day , floors brushed every day if not up to 3 times a day . Cant abide dog hair on the floors .
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Can i just say that even i did feel a bit guilty on saturday morning when i got back from the yard to find OH sweeping and cleaning our floors after he had been working away all week! (gets home friday and goes again monday!! He was also tryin to keep our 2 year old son entertained!!
 
I try to keep my house tidy but OH doesn't help so it's quite often a losing battle, but my best friends and family are aware of the health and safety dangers they face coming into my house! I try to keep on top of dishes (no dishwasher here either) and washing but ironing, hoovering and dusting is quite often neglected until I can persuade OH that it really won't take him that long, and I'm far too tired from riding/poo picking/mucking out etc...
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Oh, another one of those questions that makes me laugh in a slightly mad and desperate way!!!!
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Even as we speak OH is chipping great lumps of tiling and brick off the walls and there is a pall of dust hanging in the air.

The 'living room' floor has so much hay and sawdust it resembles a 16th century tavern and I think the seating currently has more hair than the cats do themselves. The stairs to the under part of the house are clean down the middle, because we walk there, but are about three inches deep in dust at the edges. Cleaning is a bit pointless really.....
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Bathrooms are clean, bedroom is clean, tidy and bed made, kitchen surfaces are.....not clean (see brick dust above).

Stables are clean, beds made with a ruler, mats swept, buckets cleaned and barn aisle tidy.

To be honest I hate housework. I keep the bathrooms and kitchen reasonably clean because I may be a slattern but I'm not unhygienic. Once a house is finished being renovated we move - mainly because I have no excuses left not to do housework.
 
haha, guilty as charged! yard and stables pretty immaculate, house a bit of a tip! it's not dirty (well, i dust and hoover once a week, usually 1/2 hour before mum visits!) but there are piles of paper and books and magazines absolutely everywhere. trouble is, i need a mansion to put all my stuff in, but can't afford one! muck, hay and bedding do stop at the back door though, i try not to have the whole house as an extension of the yard. the dogs do their best to combat this rule...
a friend years ago used to wash her xc boots in the sink with the washing up. that was a bit too disgusting even for me (and i have low standards!)
 
House is usually fairly tidy - but I do have a cleaner
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It's the way forward, stops me worrying about my lack of housework skills!! It's time more than anything and as others have said, housework is last on my list of priorities.
 
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I spend 2 hours every morning going round tidying,hoovering,doing washing not because I am anal when it comes to the house but because with 2 ponies,3 boys and 1 OH my house is a tip again by the time we go to bed
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Like you though I hate my OH mucking out because he doesnt think its important to sweep there beds so that they are nice and square and there pillows(banks) patted into shape
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In that case spend the extra 2 hours a day with the ponies.
 
We keep the house tidy but we don't have posh state of the art things, everything is basic, we don't spend much time in the house and all our money goes on horses or his hobbies, but are clean! can't be doing with clutter and mess and muck.

However my car is a different story, it looks like a live out of it, horse stuff, tack, clothes, bits of straw, rubbish....its really bad
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I have to skip it out every other month and it takes me hours!...in fact you have to wipe your feet as you get out!
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Continuation from my original post..........
A while ago I saw an episode of Kim and Aggie cleaning someone's house, and they were apalled and disgusted that she put stirrups and bits in the dishwasher.
I could see absolutely nothing wrong with that !!!
Surely the temperature in there will kill off any bugs ??
IF I HAD a dishwasher, I would think nothing of putting bits and stirrups in there. In fact I used to have one, and I am sure I did exactly that.
Is it really disgusting - surely not ??
 
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Continuation from my original post..........
A while ago I saw an episode of Kim and Aggie cleaning someone's house, and they were apalled and disgusted that she put stirrups and bits in the dishwasher.
I could see absolutely nothing wrong with that !!!
Surely the temperature in there will kill off any bugs ??
IF I HAD a dishwasher, I would think nothing of putting bits and stirrups in there. In fact I used to have one, and I am sure I did exactly that.
Is it really disgusting - surely not ??

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I do this
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Nooo...thats not disgusting in the slightest....

No dishwasher here either ...but I quite happily wash horse boots, stirrups etc in the kitchen sink.....

I am lucky in that while I do the horse stuff OH will quite happily iron and cook, although the hoover defeats him...but I dont mind, I like a good hoovering seesion, very therapeutic! In fact I spent my dinner hour hoovering up so I dont have to do it tonight
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I put my bits and stirrip irons in the dishwasher on a regular basis, gets them all sparkling clean! My yard and house are pretty similar in terms of tidyness, both pretty tidy but not imacculate.
 
Today it's spotless as some friends phoned at 6.30 last night to say the husband was in a meeting in our area tomorrow so could the whole family come down today and stay with us tonight for the wife to take the kids out somewhere tomorrow while he's in work and then they're staying tomorrow night as well. OH said yes straight away and then conveniently b*****ed off to work) leaving me cleaning the whole house last night till 1am and again from 6 this morning before work. As you can tell from how long it took me to clean a 2 up 2 down terraced hourse it's normally a tip but I don't let anybody see it like that if I can help it!

I will quite happily spend two hours sweeping the whole yard to avoid going home and cleaning my house, I'm not particularly OCD about my stable though either. It's always mucked out but I don't care if things aren't perfect and the tack room's cluttered to say the least!

OH whinges about the mess at home but changes his tune when I tell him he's welcome to clean it himself. I normally leave it until it's awful and then have a big splurge about once every 2 months! I've been thinking about getting a cleaner, it might save some arguments at home!

Cars are always clean as they are my OH's babies, I get told off for leaving hay and bedding in there - apparently I should brush myself down before getting into the car! (even the Landrover!!) If I ever give horsey friends a lift they worry about put their tack etc in there for fear of making a mess! I don't. I'll worry about the car when he worries about the bathroom!
 
Our house isnt immaculate but I do hoover at least once a day (2-3 times if dogs are blowing their coats) and I try to wash the dishes after every meal so they dont stack up too much

Our house used to be like a show home before we had the dogs but they have taken over our life now and you aint gonna have a show home when you`d rather be out walking/running/training your dogs lol lol
 
What is housework?
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I can't remember the last time I did any
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Kitchen sort of does itself in that OH does the pots after tea and wipes cooker, worktops etc down. Ditto bathroom, gets a quick wipe over after showers/baths but can't remember the last time I actually went in there clothed to clean it!

Dusting gets done when I notice it, or when we are having visitors, carpets get hoovered when I think they need doing. Ironing we do when we need the clothes.

We both work full time, have the horses, dogs (who live outdoors thank goodness!) and also look after a friends two children for 12 hours a week after work. I haven't time to keep a house sparkling, although it is clean and tidy.
 
Now I feel sooooo much better!!! My lounge floor is covered in toys, I have three under six year old. I still have the dinner things to clear up and I'm sitting here reading this!! My yard is tidy enough, but not immaculate.

Once the sprogs are in bed I'll sort the kitchen and hoover round so it's clean, but don't go OTT unless my mother is coming, fortunately she doesn't do that very often. Just so glad to know it's fairly normal!!!!
 
Well I spent 2 hours cleaning today, so ATM very, however normally it is not soon clean and tidy!
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My OH is a bit cleaning obsessed, so the house is usually not too bad, but with a dog, his rugby kit, my horsey stuff and living on a farm, it's never going to be a show home!

My Stable is pretty neat and tidy and I can get obsessive over sweeping the yard and tidying the muckheap
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I do housework when visitors are expected. My mother often says if I spent as much time on the house as the horses my house would be immaculate!

As long as the bathroom and kitchen sink are clean I don't worry about it.

Jane
 
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